Alta Films picks up Ghobadi’s Persian Cats for Spain

Alta Films has taken Spanish distribution rights to Bahman Ghobadi’s docu-fiction No One Knows About Persian Cats, which picked up a special prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Canne

The distributor bought the Spanish rights from French sales agent Wild Bunch at Cannes last week.

Persian Cats is a portrait of the underground music scene in contemporary Iran. It follows the attempts of two young musicians to form a rock group after being released from prison, despite being forbidden to play in their own country.

The film was co-written by Ghobadi’s girlfriend, Roxana Saberi, who was recently released from a Tehran prison having been sentenced to eight years on a charge of spying for the US government.

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